Separable ring.



No. 706,322. PacencedA Aug. 5, |902.

` c. A. KELLUGG.

SEPARABLE RING.

(Application filed Mar. 17, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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CLEMENT A. KELLOGG, OF EAST CARMEL, OHIO.

SEPARABLE RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part Cf Letters Patent No. '70 6,322, dated August 5, 1902.

Application filed March 17l 1902.

To nl?, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMENT A. KELLoec, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Carmehin the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Separable Rings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to metallic rings or chainelinks of the separable type-that is to say, links formed in two sections having a hinge connection whereby the sections may be separated or opened for the introductionv of an adjacent link, ring, eye, staple, or similar device without the necessity of cutting or welding.

The convenience and general utility of separable rings either for temporary or permanent use is well recognized, especially in connection with farming and lumbering machinery and appliances. The chief object of my present invention, however, is a separable link possessing at once the qualifications of simplicity,durability,strength, and the greatest ease of manipulation under all conditions, wet weather and dry, freezing weather and warm.

The invention willhereinafterbe described, and particularly pointed out in the claims following.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and whereon corresponding letters indicate identical parts in the several views, Figure 1 represents in plan my improved form of ring, the parts being assembled and ready for use. Fig. 2 is an edge or side elevation of the invention. Figs. 3 and 4 are side views of the individual ringsections; and Fig. 5 is a fragmentary View in perspective,taken at the end of ring-section illustrated by Fig. 4.

Reference being had to the drawings and letters thereon, A indicates one section, and B another section, of aseparable ring. When assembled, each of said sections are mortised or embedded one into the other, so as to collectively form a continuous ring of uniform thickness, as illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2.

Serial No. 98,658. (No model) Upon the reduced portions dof each ringsection are formed projecting pintles b, which latter enter corresponding recesses c in each adjacent section to more securely lock and hold the two in relative position during use.

C indicates a socket or depression in one end of the ring-section B, the walls d e whereof rise to the surface of the section, while surmounting the wall e is an integral spurl), adapted to be folded over in the course of manufacture and practically bridge the depression C, as will later appear.

Projecting laterally from the squared end E of section A is a hinge'pin F of a size suitable to rest in the depression C aforesaid and bearing at its extremity an angular lockingfeatherf, the latter serving to retain the sections in their operative position, permitting them at same time to hinge one upon the other. j

This being the preferred construction of my improved ring-sections, they are assembled Vfor use by first inserting the hinge-pin F upon section `A in the socket C of section B. Spur D is thereupon forcibly bent down until it practically closes the upper edge of socket C, thus confining featherf aforesaid, which latter is accordingly afforded a slight rocking movement back and forth in the channel g thus formed, as shown by Fig. 1.

As thus constructed it will be observed that my improved form of ring is most easily manipulated under all conditions owing to its simplicity of construction and absence of parts which might become deranged. 1t is also most durable owing to the peculiar ar# rangement and construction of parts, which are designed, arranged, and adapted to relieve the hinge-pin F of undue strains, the stress and strain being taken almost entirely by the hooked extremities of the ring-sec tion B.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pate ent, is-

1. In a separable ring the combination with relatively iixed and movable ring-sections, of a hinge-pin projecting from one of said sections, a hinge-pin socket formed in the other of said sections, and a spur folded over said ICO pin in its socket for interlocking the ring-seepin to prevent its Withdrawal from the socket tions, substantially as described. aforesaid, substantially as described. 1o

2. In a separable ring, the combination with In testimony whereof I subscribe my signarelatively xed and movable ring-sections, of ture in presence of two Witnesses.

5 a hinge-pin projecting from one of said see- CLEMENT A. KELLOGG.

tions bearing an angular feather, a socket in Witnesses: the other of said sections for receiving said W. A. FARR,

hinge-pin, and a spur folded over the hinge- LOUIS T. FARR. 

